Meeting for John Trinick and Gerald Offer: January 10th 2020, Leeds
Two highly regarded researchers in the ‘muscle’ field, died this year – Professor John Trinick and Professor Gerald Offer. We are planning a meeting to honour their life and work, and look forward to future developments.
Coiled coils, myosin, titin and striated muscle: A reflection on the contributions of John Trinick and Gerald Offer.
09.30 Arrive & Coffee
10.00 Howard White What a pleasure it was to have had John and Gerald as colleagues and friends: The Influence they both had on my career past and present.
10.30 Belinda Bullard The legacy of John’s work on titin in Heidelberg
10.50 KW Ranatunga Modelling the Crossbridge Cycle of Muscle
11.05 Pauline Bennett Locating titin and MyBP-C on the muscle thick filament
11.20 Tea/coffee
11.40 Roger Craig Structural studies of myosin molecules and thick filaments: in the footsteps of Gerald and John
12.10 Annalisa Pastore From Titin and Beyond
12.25 Dek Woolfson Learning my ABCs with Gerald: Alpbach, Beamsand Coils
12.55 Lunch
13.45 Mathias Gautel Rulers, Blueprints and Mysteries of the Sarcomere
14.15 Michelle Peckham Titin, myosin, and sarcomeric diseases
14.30 Rob Cross How stiff is your lever?
14.45 Charlie Scarff The structural basis of HCM: Linking mutation to disease
15.00 Tea/Coffee
15.30 Peter Knight Working with Gerald Offer and John Trinick on myosins, muscle and meat.
16.10 Closing remarks
16.30. Drinks reception